Soame Jenyns

“Great men whilst living must expect disgraces,Dead they're ador'd—when none desire their places.”

“The chief business of a government is like that of a nurse, to hinder those who are under its care from doing mischief to themselves.”

“If christian nations therefore were nations of christians, all war would be impossible and unknown among them.”

“Man is that link of the chain of universal existence, by which spiritual and corporeal Beings are united … How will man, that sanguinary tyrant, be able to excuse himself from the charge of those innumerable cruelties inflicted on his unoffending subjects committed to his care, formed for his benefit, and placed under his authority by their common Father?”